Producing new social relations through "normalized" conflicts: focusing on the mexican indigenous movement.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15KT0130
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 特設分野
• Research Field: Conflict Studies
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Sasaki Tasuku 神戸大学, 人文学研究科, 准教授 (90528960)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-07-10 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 紛争 / 先住民 / 移民

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Mexico, the social turmoil accompanying neo-liberal economic restructuring and social apathy due to malfunction of the political system have produced the attempt to reorganize the whole in different forms of social relations. I investigated this phenomenon through fieldwork. First it revealed that Indigenous movement in Chiapas state has exceeded regional and ethnic restrictions, leading to the creation of the "national" in a new form. It also showed that such movements are closely linked to efforts in other sectors, particularly the immigration support movement.

Free Research Field

社会学